For the first time ever, I found myself yelling at the phone and loving it. Sorrent's Fox Sports Football is a great mobile football game--not absolutely perfect, but easily the best out there now.
In FSF, you see from the QB's eyes. You see your players cross to get open right in front of you. The "bullet button" option (holding down your receiver's number to build up passing power) adds real depth to the playcalling/play-execution mix. Calling a double team on defense and stuffing the pass right back at the QB is a giddy experience. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
FSF is not real football. You start on offense with 10 plays until halftime. Every offensive gain earns you points (from five points for short yardage to 20 for a touchdown). It's borderline sacrilege to mess with the traditional football scoring system, but the OFL system manages to work fairly well.
You get 10 offensive plays before switching to D. Before every offensive play, you are presented with three plays from your playbook of 38, or you can hand off to your running back. The automatic play selection gets a little repetitive after a couple games--the same three plays tend to always come up in first-and-ten situations--but the real-time passing/hand-off decisions make up for that pretty well.
Defensive play selection is limited too. You choose between two preselected plays from a quiver of five. But as on offense, during the play you can call double teams on receivers, and once a game, you can call a Super Blitz that only gives that spindly-legged QB one second to dump the ball.
It's got to be said that a lot of FSF's action takes place in your mind. The graphics and animations are enough to trigger serious weekend football flashbacks. But, just to set expectations, they're not perfect. Although sometimes the animations match up scarily well with the plays you called, they don't always, especially on running plays. When you're on defense, you still see from the QB's eyes.
In spite of these minor difficulties, Sorrent's Fox Sports Football is still a great mobile title and is the most realistic football action available for the cell. If you're on AT&T with a Moto T720 or on Sprint with a Samsung a500, LG 5350, or N400, get this game now.
